In 2022, Hikvision was awarded a Chinese government contract to develop software to track 'key people' in order to prevent them from entering Beijing. In 2021, Best Buy, Home Depot, and Lowe's stopped selling cameras from Hikvision brand Ezviz due to concerns about Hikvision's complicity in surveillance and human rights violations in Xinjiang. In January 2021, the company won a US$33 million, 1,900-camera smart city project in Shanghe County, Shandong that includes cameras with facial recognition and license plate recognition technologies. In May 2017, Hikvision established Hikstorage, a subsidiary focused on the production of storage devices. In October 2016, the company concluded a deal to use Movidius' computer vision technology. Hikvision has been listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange since 2010. ( Chinese: 浙江海康信息技术股份有限公司) with the company having a 51% stake and Gong Hongjia ( 龚虹嘉) a 49% stake at that time. Hikvision was founded in 2001 by Zhejiang HIK Information Technology Co., Ltd. Due to its involvement in mass surveillance of Uyghurs, the Xinjiang internment camps, and national security concerns, the company has been placed under sanctions from the U.S. Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd., often shortened to Hikvision, is a Chinese state-owned manufacturer and supplier of video surveillance equipment for civilian and military purposes, headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. In a consolidated basis (net assets and net profit excluding minority interests) in Chinese Accounting Standards Hángzhōu Hǎikāng Wēishì Shùzì Jìshù Gǔfèn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī

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